Company News
India Online: Online shopping in India is going places in India, peppered by the inevitable human touchedit
Overview of online shopping in various categories like jewellery and furniture with customer testimonials.
One testimonial details a couples’ hunt for furniture offline and their eventual success online, “Between Pepperfry and Urban Ladder we found our pick and almost all our furniture was bought online.”
Publication: Financial Chronicle (Clip Attached)
Date: November 11, 2017
Competition and Industry News
‘Mistakes in business are best fixed fast’edit
“In a year, our trucks traverse a distance, which is equivalent to the distance of travelling to moon and back five times,” was how founder and CEO of Pepperfry.com Ambareesh Murthy chose to describe the scale of business done by his company.
Publication: The Hindu Kochi
Date: November 11, 2017
The List Of Over 200 Items Now Taxed At Lower Rates Under GSTedit
The Goods and Services Tax Council today decided to cut the rates on 211 items across all tax slabs in an effort to rationalise rates under the new indirect tax regime.
Tax rate on furniture was lowered from 28 percent to 18 percent. Online furniture marketplace Pepperfry said it will pass on the benefit to consumers.
Publication: Bloomberg Quint
Date: November 11, 2017
The experimental artistedit
There is a twinkle in Minu Ninan’s eyes when she speaks about her artworks. The walls of Studio Pepperfry in Panampilly Nagar, Kochi, are adorned with her oil paintings while painted bottles are arranged on shelves and tables.
Publication: Deccan Chronicle
Date: November 11, 2017